SU
E2716
SU was the two-letter country code used to represent the former Soviet Union in various international standards and systems.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18369 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SU Context triple: [Soviet Union, countryCode, SU]
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A.
USASC
USASC is the commonly used abbreviation for the United States Army Signal Corps, the branch responsible for the Army’s communications and information systems.
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B.
SF
SF is the standard two-letter postal abbreviation used to represent the city of San Francisco, California.
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C.
SS
The SS was a paramilitary organization of Nazi Germany that became one of the principal instruments of terror, repression, and mass murder, including the systematic genocide of Jews and other targeted groups during World War II.
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D.
ACU
ACU (the Association of Commonwealth Universities) is an international network of higher education institutions from Commonwealth countries that promotes collaboration, academic excellence, and educational development.
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E.
Sununu
Sununu is a prominent American political family name most notably associated with former New Hampshire Governor and White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu and his son, Governor Chris Sununu.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SU Target entity description: SU was the two-letter country code used to represent the former Soviet Union in various international standards and systems.
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A.
USASC
USASC is the commonly used abbreviation for the United States Army Signal Corps, the branch responsible for the Army’s communications and information systems.
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B.
SF
SF is the standard two-letter postal abbreviation used to represent the city of San Francisco, California.
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C.
SS
The SS was a paramilitary organization of Nazi Germany that became one of the principal instruments of terror, repression, and mass murder, including the systematic genocide of Jews and other targeted groups during World War II.
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D.
ACU
ACU (the Association of Commonwealth Universities) is an international network of higher education institutions from Commonwealth countries that promotes collaboration, academic excellence, and educational development.
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E.
Sununu
Sununu is a prominent American political family name most notably associated with former New Hampshire Governor and White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu and his son, Governor Chris Sununu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ISO 3166 code element
ⓘ
country code ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| alpha2CodeFor | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| assignedBy |
ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
ⓘ
International Organization for Standardization ⓘ |
| category | former country code ⓘ |
| changeReason | dissolution of the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| codeType | alpha-2 ⓘ |
| codingSystemContext |
country identification
ⓘ
state identification ⓘ |
| distinctFrom |
RU
ⓘ
RUS ⓘ Russian Federation country codes ⓘ |
| geographicalAssociation | Eurasia ⓘ |
| hasLegacyUse |
archival records
ⓘ
historical statistics ⓘ long-lived information systems ⓘ |
| hasProperty | still reserved to avoid conflict with legacy data ⓘ |
| languageOfAbbreviation | English ⓘ |
| notReassignedTo | any new country ⓘ |
| politicalAssociation | communist state bloc (historical) ⓘ |
| previousStatus | officially assigned ⓘ |
| relatedThreeLetterCode | SUN ⓘ |
| relatedTopLevelDomain | .su ⓘ |
| represents | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| representsFormerEntity |
USSR
ⓘ
linked to:
Soviet Union
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ⓘ
linked to:
Soviet Union
|
| representsHistoricalCountry | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| scopeOfUse |
banking and finance systems
ⓘ
data processing systems ⓘ international standards ⓘ telecommunications ⓘ transportation coding systems ⓘ |
| status |
exceptionally reserved
ⓘ
reserved ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfOfficialUse |
20th century
ⓘ
late 20th century ⓘ |
| usedAlongside | SUN ⓘ |
| usedAs | internet country code top-level domain prefix in some contexts ⓘ |
| usedIn |
computer databases referencing the USSR
ⓘ
international sports coding (historically) ⓘ international trade documentation (historically) ⓘ machine-readable travel documents (historically) ⓘ |
| usedInStandard |
ISO 3166
ⓘ
ISO 3166-1 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: SU Description of subject: SU was the two-letter country code used to represent the former Soviet Union in various international standards and systems.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: SU